Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Peaceful
Peaceful as sleep.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Peaceful as the advance of summer.
—Monçure D. Conway
Peaceful as stars at twilight.
—Victor Hugo
Peaceful as two pups in a basket.
—Alfred Henry Lewis
Peaceful as two six-shooters on the same belt.
—Alfred Henry Lewis
Peaceful … as a virgin lake.
—James Russell Lowell
Peaceful as summer woods.
—George MacDonald
Peaceful as a hired hand.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Peaceful as dew-mist from an evening sky.
—Bayard Taylor
Peaceful as falls the dew.
—William Winter
Peaceful as the morning.
—William Wordsworth